The Sound Gardener

A mockumentary for Funny or Die that reveals Apple's best-kept secret: AirPods aren't manufactured — they're grown.

Funny or DieComedy Film2019

The secret is in the soil

In the guise of an Apple documentary, we meet Ken Yamamoto — an 83-year-old reclusive botanist and self-styled 'sound gardener' who has quietly cultivated Apple's headphones since the first iPod in 2001. Straight-faced, lovingly shot, completely absurd.

It ran as a Funny or Die original and got picked up across the Apple blogs as one of the year's most charming April Fools'.

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